Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

SPHR: Every organization has its share of leaders, technical geniuses or future leaders who lack social skills and self-awareness. More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment. Guest post from Cheryl A. Bond, Ed.D.,

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 14, 2012

It’s only focusing on the “soft skills” or leadership side of culture change. But if they are not backed up by realigning operational processes and shifting key support systems you end up with highly motivated people who come to feel manipulated and powerless against “the bureaucracy.”

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Teamwork Bottom-up Morale Bureaucracy 61

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

More specifically, they employ a diverse combination of capabilities to solve problems that aren’t being addressed by organizations as part of their everyday operations. They don’t go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A lack of the skills needed to adopt those better processes. Taking steps like standardizing the way interviews are conducted, for example, may be perceived as excessive bureaucracy by some employees even if they are beneficial to the organization as a whole. To see why, consider something as basic as process implementation.

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Management Teamwork Core Competence Bureaucracy 20

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Each has different rules for skillful navigation. Political dynamics start with the individual player and their political skills. The High Ground.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

As insurgent companies grow in scale and scope, they inevitably discover that future success will require skills and capabilities the “heroes” don’t have. Somehow it has become a good thing that they are big and bureaucratic, and rely on complex systems to operate. But it is also unsustainable. We are a winner.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy System Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The Future of Operations. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” ” But here’s the problem for operations: Standardized processes that work are great. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

And last quarter, Amazon began publicizing financial results for Amazon Web Services, which generated an amazing 67% of Amazon’s operating income in the first quarter of this year although it represents less than one-tenth of Amazon’s total revenue. To date, few companies have mastered this skill.

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Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The medical literature increasingly offers potential solutions to the inefficiencies that rob patients of physicians’ time and attention, including delegating lower-expertise tasks to non-physician team members, improving the design of the electronic health system, and greatly reducing the paperwork bureaucracy that adds little or no value.

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Balanced Scorecard Contingency Plans Active Listening Guidelines 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Institutions should specialize not just in classroom learning, but in vocational skills, in experiential learning, in experimental learning, and many other modes. While there are localized pockets of such experimenting in India, they are sufficiently scarce as to not to make much of a difference (yet).

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Education Bureaucracy System Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

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Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? First, it’s familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

But the sheer pace of change has created a skills gap, which is stopping many of these organizations from moving more quickly. Tasked explicitly with driving growth, these roles combine strategy, corporate development, investment, and operations, as companies seek to find meaningful new revenues streams. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do. Gerstner called his listening tour Operation Bear Hug. But it led to an even larger shift in IBM’s culture, transforming the company from an inwardly focused bureaucracy to a market-driven innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. What new skill could I learn? They have mentoring programs for high school students… Elfin’s self-engineered turn around became a very important symbol [of reducing bureaucracy]. What customer can I delight?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. traffic deaths.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The system encourages certain behaviors, such as top-down bureaucracies and seeking whom to blame for problems or unmet goals instead of how to fix or achieve them. Each executive and manager maintains a list of skills and knowledge required to be effective at their level. If managers achieve the objectives, they are rewarded.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. The 5 domains of EQ are: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation, 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). By Daniel H.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The nations on Europe's periphery can grow sustainably only if they significantly increase the ability of their economies — and ultimately their firms — to innovate, reduce the distorting role of the public sector through incumbent protection and needless bureaucracy, and improve the way their public sectors use their resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

I therefore decided to open up all combat positions to women, including infantry, armor, and some special operations units, like the Navy SEALs, without exception. We provided new career counseling as well as professional skill certification for our tradesmen, among other efforts.

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Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses. The assets that are truly scarce at most companies are the skills and capabilities required to turn great growth ideas into successful new products, services, and businesses.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: You achieve your own future, with the help of skilled advisors. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. Products and services assist the bureaucracy to do its job more efficiently but cannot claim credit for Big Picture success of a client’s entire industry.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. The hierarchy is still in place.

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Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

First, don’t assume that technical skills and knowledge trump character, especially when hiring on the managerial level. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to use good judgment to take risks, to operate with principled motives, and to hold positive assumptions. And you get what you give.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. Collectively there are over 3,000 students from over 60 nations on campus, undertaking 55 programs.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But even if an AI system gives an employee super-powered intelligence, it won’t be enough to make a timely decision if the company’s internal bureaucracy requires time-consuming pre-authorization from senior managers before acting on the decision. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

For example, IBM’s Watson computer diagnoses cancers with much higher levels of speed and accuracy than skilled physicians do. ” In 1995, I wrote, “Bureaucracies by definition resist change, thinking that heads-down is the route to survival. Soon the work will stay here but be done by computers. Insight Center. .

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